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Last
week Ford gave us the first look at the fuel cell-powered Fusion that they
will be taking out to Bonneville next month to try and establish a top
speed benchmark for production bodied fuel cell vehicles. This past weekend
a group of twenty engineers and technicians from Ford and Roush took the
Hydrogen Fusion 999 to the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty,
OH for its first track test as a complete vehicle and they invited AutoblogGreen
to stop by.
The Fusion 999 project was born in early 2006 when Ford Fuel Cell Engineering Manager Mujeeb Ijaz approached Roush about doing a project to demonstrate the performance potential of a fuel cell-powered vehicle. Although they initially envisioned using a Focus body shell, once the analysis started it quickly became clear they would need something larger, so they switched to Fusion.
Continue reading the story of the Fusion 999's gestation and see video of the car after the jump by clicking HERE.
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